Removing Irrelevant Information from Working Memory: A Cognitive Aging Study with the Modified Sternberg Task

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 948-957

  Oberauer, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 85047685653     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.27.4.948     Document Type: Article

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